I will get right to the point, will we see a change regarding the servers? New Server maybe? New Server upgrades?
Just about every chronicle that has come out we see an influx of new/returning players hop on the servers. I won't fool you that I know for sure, but playing as long as I have, I have a gut feeling we could be running into a critical mass.
Example: This weekend during the event period and during peek NA playing time most of the servers were heavy status. I have also seen friends come back to the game 1.) for this event 2.) to get ready for C5 which by my guess is about a month away from going live.
What is NCsoft doing that will allow this chronicle to be successful and not turn into people not being able to log on? We did see some of that in C4 even after the upgrades.
Do others get that same feeling that we could be looking at some server full messages after C5 is released?
*edit*
The other idea is that I am blowing smoke and RustNC feels we will be fine with the current server setup? Also there was a hint about some news about the servers?
Thank you for this post. I was waiting for it, truely.
Maybe you want to meet with the guy, from suggestion forum, who just suggested the merging of a couple servers, who are "always empty" ?
Some servers are overloaded at peak times.
Some servers are deserted out of peak times.
All players evenly spread over all existing servers would create a normal rating on all servers at all times, I would guess.
But....
You cannot force any player to play on any special server. You cannot force players to move to another server or a new server.
You cannot force new players to only startup on a new server.
You cannot stop old players from moving in to a new server as well.
Finally, you cannot force anyone to do anything.
We do not need new servers. There is always a server at your service, that will easily let you join. The waiting queues are gone, so I see no technical need for new servers.
We went from 4 update servers to 11 does that count?
That I did not know, thanks for pointing it out.
As for new servers, yes I do have a hidden agenda, relaxed servers BUT thats not the point of my question and can be battled out in a diffrent topic.
I really want to know the state of the server infrastructure. Will it hold up to the launch of C5.
If you remember back when C4 was at its prime we had a lot of people complaining about how they could not log in because of full servers, can't remember but I think it was SirE(a respected member of the community) who was going to quit because of it. They did make changes which helped (bannings/tweaked servers). I want to make sure that does not happen.
Ban [****] as needed. There's enough to spare. Saves the company from expensive hardware upgrades until they know for sure if the new players will stay or not. If they stay then upgrade the hardware.
In this thread so far, a few keywords have attracted my surfing tools : new servers, merges, relax, drop rates, sharing information, Openness as a corporate strategy.
Not bad on so few post so I'll add mine. Anyone mentioned Server transfers already ? Such a cool C5 feature for every new server in town and his predecessors.
/Old Fan of Old Kittens. (NC, don't blame me... YOU invited me to the closed beta :p )
No ones mentioned merges except you. We dont need it. This event period, almost all the servers were on "Heavy" status, enough of a clue to shut most people up.
No ones mentioned merges except you. We dont need it. This event period, almost all the servers were on "Heavy" status, enough of a clue to shut most people up.
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Maybe you want to meet with the guy, from suggestion forum, who just suggested the merging of a couple servers, who are "always empty" ?
Another clue would be to actually read the threads you post in...
Still and to step back on track it'd be sad to get 'client lag' in C5...
im already experiancing it on kain...but that is probably due to kain having a higher ping then other servers...but the community on kain (that i've experianced) is imo the best... i'm sure should lag become an issue NC will address this problem...sure the forums will have to fill up with posts about it but....they will keep us happy at least with lag issues and such... :p